EPA's Ports Initiative is pleased to offer this webinar for near-port communities and other port stakeholders to learn more about:

• The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA’s) Community-Port Collaboration Toolkit and associated training materials to help communities and port operators develop collaboration skills and enhance understanding of stakeholder priorities and challenges associated with port-related activities.

• Lessons learned from successful community-port collaboration in Savannah, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Long Beach.

• Funding available to support communities living near port and rail facilities through EPA’s EJ Small Grants program.

• EPA’s Ports Initiative program to accelerate adoption of cleaner technologies, planning practices such as conducting emissions inventories, and productive community engagement at ports across the country.

Near-port communities that bear the brunt of air pollution from diesel engines are often comprised of low-income populations and people of color. EPA is working to support effective and meaningful engagement between communities, the port industry, and other port stakeholders to improve air quality and health outcomes for disadvantaged communities.

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• Please contact talkaboutports@epa.gov by April 2 if you have any special accommodation requests or needs (e.g., Spanish interpretation).

• Comuníquese con talkaboutports@epa.gov antes del 2 de abril si tiene alguna petición o necesidad de adaptación especial (por ejemplo, interpretación al español).

Questions



• Contact talkaboutports@epa.gov or Rob Schweinfurth at schweinfurth.rob@epa.gov

This EPA Ports Initiative tool brings together real-world examples of emissions reduction activities as well as key practices highlighted in the Best Port-Wide Planning Practices to Improve Air Quality webpage. The data were gathered from a review of public websites and EPA's Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grant funding for the 49 ports featured in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics Port Performance Freight Statistics in 2018: Annual Report to Congress. This tool includes information about the following clean air practices:

• Emissions Inventory

• Emissions Reduction Target

• Emissions Reduction Activity

• DERA Funding Project

• Community Engagement

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This series of port operational strategy fact sheets provides information to inform port stakeholders about potential emission reduction strategies. Each fact sheet contains basic information about the strategy, emission impacts, cost components, and example programs. While each strategy can achieve benefits on its own, implementing them together could create synergies. The following operational strategies fact sheets are available:

• Port Gate Management Strategies Improve Air Quality and Efficiency at Ports

• Management Information Systems Improve Operational Efficiencies and Air Quality At Ports

• Marine Vessel Speed Reduction Reduces Air Emissions and Fuel Usage

• Virtual Vessel Arrival Systems at Ports Improves Air Quality and Saves Fuel

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